As a professional evolutionary psychologist (and definitely not someone who just read this on the internet somewhere and can’t find a source), ADHD was probably beneficial tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago. The mf who got bored of living in a village for 20 years and decided to walk hundreds of miles until they found a really cool hill is the mf founding new villages and moving into Europe, and Asia, and the Americas, and Australia
Cross disciplinary skills are necessary for invention.
I like to think of ADHD as a beneficial mutagen in our technological and artistic evolution.
As a professional evolutionary psychologist (and definitely not someone who just read this on the internet somewhere and can’t find a source), ADHD was probably beneficial tens to hundreds of thousands of years ago. The mf who got bored of living in a village for 20 years and decided to walk hundreds of miles until they found a really cool hill is the mf founding new villages and moving into Europe, and Asia, and the Americas, and Australia